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Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said that his hearings on homegrown Muslim terrorism in 2011 have been vindicated in the ensuing years after many American Muslims have traveled overseas to join the Islamic State organization's ongoing campaign of terror. (associated press)

** FILE ** Rep. Peter T. King (left), New York Republican, joined by other lawmakers from areas affected by Superstorm Sandy, expresses his anger and disappointment after learning the House Republican leadership had decided to allow the current term of Congress to end without holding a vote on aid for the storm's victims, at the Capitol in Washington early on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

** FILE ** Rep. Peter T. King (left), New York Republican, joined by other lawmakers from areas affected by Superstorm Sandy, expresses his anger and disappointment after learning the House Republican leadership had decided to allow the current term of Congress to end without holding a vote on aid for the storm's victims, at the Capitol in Washington early on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

“If she is sent out to speak to the American people on what happened in Benghazi, she is obligated to do more than look at ... five sentences of unclassified talking points.” - Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, New York Republican

“If she is sent out to speak to the American people on what happened in Benghazi, she is obligated to do more than look at ... five sentences of unclassified talking points.” - Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, New York Republican

Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said during a hearing Wednesday: "I don't think we have such an elitist attitude that we're only going to hear from people who have security clearances" in defending the testimony from Muslim witnesses. (Associated Press)

Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, confers Thursday with an aide during a hearing, "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response." He said it was the first in a series of such hearings. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, questions witnesses Abdirizak Bihi (left), director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center, and Melvin Bledsoe, whose son converted to Islam during college and left for Yemen, during a hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 10, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

** FILE ** Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, opens hearings into Islamic radicalization on Thursday, March 10, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. King dismissed what he called the "rage and hysteria" surrounding the hearings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)